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Karen Jiyun Sung

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Illustrator, Urban sketcher, Educator

"I have legs so I can go anywhere. I have a brain so I can think of anything."

Karen is an illustrator and urban sketcher, currently located in South Korea. She has merged herself in many different cultures such as in New Zealand, Canada, United States, Italy and Turkey. She has been recording her observations in her drawings and has made her life's passion to go around the world and draw what she sees. She is currently focused in drawing cafes around the world, as seen in caffeinatedkaren.com

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Seoul City has recently built and exhibited a fully eco-friendly, sustainable "Ecohouse" in City Center. Its purpose is to showcase "how" eco-friendly buildings are made, utilized, and sustained. The citizens of Seoul are free to visit and take the t

"I was the one in the family to go pump the water," my grandmother says. This, I have no idea what it means. As a Korean, our generation gap is so great that I never stopped to think about how my mother and my grandmother had to walk to nearby wells

I lived in New Zealand a few years back. At the time, my town was discussing whether to build the wind generators along the mountainside to make clean energy. The idea was revoked. The townspeople said 'it will make the hilltops ugly.'
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No problem! I guess the next question is: these will cost an arm and a leg for individuals. How might the government be involved is the effort? How would the government generate revenue, both financially and internationally?